The migration of living cells plays an important role in immune response, hemostasis, cancer progression, delivery of nutrients, and microfluidic technologies such cell separation/enrichment and flow cytometry. Using three-dimensional computational...

The goal of this research is to study the neutralization of sulfuric acid by engine oils, and more specifically study how the presence of different oil additives affects the acid-neutralizing performance of engine oils by using capillary...

Multicellular tumor spheroid cultures (MCTS), have a wide variety of uses in the field of cancer treatment. Current methods, however, do not provide spheroids adequate large for therapy testing. In order to circumvent this problem, a bioreactor...

HIFU is the upcoming technology for noninvasive or minimally invasive tumor ablation via the localized acoustic energy deposition at the focal region within the tumor target. The presence of cavitation bubbles had been shown to improve the...

Silicon nanoparticles are attractive candidates for biological, photovoltaic and energy storage applications due to their size dependent optoelectronic properties. These include tunable light emission, high brightness, and stability against...

During the development of the nervous system, a complex system of
chemical and mechanical cues guide nerve cell projections toward appropriate
targets by eliciting attractive or repulsive responses from navigating
structures called growth cones....

In the reopening of fluid occluded airways, the pressure gradient due to the propagation of an air bubble causes extensive epithelial cell damage. The mechanism of cell necrosis and biotransport may be further understood by characterizing the flow...

Excessive PM2.5 emissions in China threaten peoples’ health and cause massive economic burdens to society. Under pressure from the public, and the international community, China published PM2.5 standards for the first time in March 2012. Following...

Stored red blood cell (sRBC) morphology is currently scored manually by technicians in a slow labor intensive process prone to error. This project proposes a way to simplify, automate, and expedite the morphology scoring process by using a novel...

Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) is a Gram-positive bacterium which poses a substantial threat to public health due to its high virulence and multi-drug resistance. Membrane vesicles (MVs) are naturally-derived nanoparticles which...

Amphiphilic polymers are a subset of macromolecules that exhibit both hydrophobic and hydrophilic moieties within their covalently bonded structures. Because of the differing solubilities of the contrasting regions of the amphiphilic polymers, they...

The current set of experiments was designed to test the hypothesis that there is a sex difference in impulsivity and in brain areas associated with impulse control in prepubertal and adult rats, such that females have greater inhibitory control...